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Posted Thu, Jan 19, 2 a.m.
Whether sitting in harbor or, tragically, tilted in the water, cruise ships are out of scale. Perhaps that is part of their attraction.
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Posted Sat, Jan 14, 2 a.m.
Need a vacation? Of course you do. It's January in Seattle. A month-by-month travel guide to keep your mood up all through 2012.
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Posted Tue, Jan 3, 2 a.m.
Mazatlan meets Mahler, and two formerly frantic freelance viola players from Seattle find steady work and communal musical bliss in Mexico, where orchestras thrive while their counterparts in the U.S. are struggling.
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Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.
A recent disruption in ferry service to the San Juan Islands illuminated just how close Washington's ferry system is to the edge. Can a new government task force resuscitate the struggling system?
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Posted Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.
Most imported oil is adulterated, and what you pay doesn't guarantee quality.
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Posted Fri, Dec 23, 2 a.m.
Nearby Peruvians towns offer a living culture. Machu Picchu was impressive, even worthy of its billing, but there are also larger collections of Incan ruins elsewhere.
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Posted Thu, Dec 22, 2 a.m.
Now that Washington no longer has a tourism budget, private interests are taking the reins on the promotion of the Evergreen State and the Emerald City. But will it be enough?
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Posted Wed, Oct 26, 2 a.m.
The eccentric West through the eyes of Seattle's British expat author is a landscape of strange customs, forlorn towns, and back roads. His mantra: "To be alone is to be safe."
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Posted Wed, Oct 26, 2 a.m.
A recent disruption in ferry service to the San Juan Islands illuminated just how close Washington's ferry system is to the edge. Can a new government task force resuscitate the struggling system?
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Posted Wed, Oct 19, 2 a.m.
With the boom of the Northwest's local food movement, a new kind of vacation has emerged. More and more farmers are converting spare rooms into guest rooms, and offering city-dwellers a taste of farm life -- chickens and all.
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Posted Wed, Oct 5, 2 a.m.
Three brothers savor a long-awaited volcano climb - until the weather turns, disaster looms, and a fellow hiker disappears.
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Posted Thu, Sep 29, 2 a.m.
Author James A. Reeves crisscrossed America in a rental car. What he found was a touching portrait of loss, community resilience, and the overbearing hand of government fear.
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Posted Wed, Sep 14, 7:30 p.m.
After two years, Josh Fattal's and Shane Bauer's imprisonment for wandering off a hiking trail was about to end. Instead, their ongoing ordeal reveals the dark side of Iranian politics - and of adventure travel and media attention.
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Posted Wed, Sep 14, 2 a.m.
The small country has an outsized presence in our region. A recent arts festival in Reykjavik, honoring sister-city Seattle, drew the two regions and economies closer together.
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Posted Wed, Aug 17, 11:50 a.m.
Cool in the summer? Mild the year around? Folks, we can make this sound pretty good to most of the country. Probably without trying very hard.
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Posted Tue, Aug 16, 2 a.m.
First you get lost in Kansas City. But eventually you find your way to its history, its meats, its bars. And best of all, the extraordinary beauty of a museum designed by Steven Holl.
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Posted Fri, Aug 12, 2 a.m.
With Seattle's tourism funding all but gone, France offers inspiration and a few tips.
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Posted Mon, Aug 1, 2 a.m.
A visit discovers a nation of entrepreneurs, powered by engineering, marketing, and government support. China's dynamic growth is also overwhelming its cities and highways.
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Posted Thu, Jul 28, 3:30 p.m.
Eating on the Edge: Seattle's Kurt Beecher Dammeier has taken a personal hand in opening the new store in the Big Apple. But its offerings are much broader than in the familiar Pike Place Market.
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Posted Fri, Jul 22, 2 a.m.
Nearby Peruvians towns offer a living culture. Machu Picchu was impressive, even worthy of its billing, but there are also larger collections of Incan ruins elsewhere.
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If you're thinking of relying on a web search, consider what you would miss by taking the same approach in Seattle.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 5, 9:54 p.m. 2011
The crowds of holiday shoppers are big and the attitude is that the crisis will be worked out. But do people really want Germany calling the economic shots?
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 22, 2 a.m. 2011
The country will need to play up more of its attractions, even in the more remote regions.
MOREPosted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m. 2011
As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
MOREPosted Sun, Sep 11, 7:45 a.m. 2011
Our well-traveled writer finally visits the haunting grounds of the World Trade Center, and previews the memorials now rising there.
MOREPosted Wed, Aug 17, 2 a.m. 2011
A decision by the Canadian government not only preserves the existing second daily train but also opens the possibility of a third train.
MOREPosted Wed, Jul 27, 2:30 p.m. 2011
Growing up, I was surrounded by Norskes. My non-English speaking grandparents emigrated from Trondheim, Norway, to Snohomish County.
MOREPosted Fri, Jul 22, 2 a.m. 2011
A charity event, the first at a new lodge, offers a chance to see some of what makes the region attractive to folks from Western Washington.
Posted Wed, Jul 6, 12:18 p.m. 2011
A new book details the exploitive culinary vassalage of apprentices with Ferran Adria in his Spanish restaurant, el Bulli, often touted as the finest in the world.
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 22, noon 2011
You can learn a lot of things about the economy and the helpfulness of Uncle Sam by driving the interstates from here to St. Paul.
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